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The urban legend that Coca-Cola developed the drink Fanta to sell in Nazi Germany without public backlash originated as the actual tale of German Max Keith, who invented the drink and ran Coca-Cola's operations in Germany during World War II.
In developed countries, there has been a backlash against excessive human-made clutter in the visual environment, such as signposts, signs, and hoardings.
By 1834, a general backlash against Biddle's tactics developed, ending the panic and all recharter efforts were abandoned.
A severe backlash against Iranians in the U. S. developed.
A backlash developed as the cutter's use became more widespread, due to concerns that a pitcher overusing the pitch could develop arm fatigue.
The immense problem with air pollution ( smog ) that had developed by the early 1970s also caused a backlash.

backlash and 1980s
Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) tells a dystopic tale of a society in which women have been systematically stripped of all liberty, and was motivated by fear of potential retrogressive effects on women's rights stemming from the anti-feminist backlash of the 1980s.
* Faludi's 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women.
A peak in popularity in the late 1980s gave way to a backlash among those wine drinkers who saw the grape as a leading negative component of the globalization of wine.
In the 1980s, there was a backlash against industrial kitchen planning and cabinets with people installing a mix of work surfaces and free standing furniture, led by kitchen designer Johnny Grey and his concept of the " Unfitted Kitchen ".
* The proliferation of the commercial toy or toyline-oriented animated program in the 1980s also led to advocacy group backlash and a decline in such programming.
By the end of the 1980s, Jawaiian came to dominate the local music scene, as well as spawning a backlash that the Honolulu Star-Bulletin compared to the " disco sucks " movement of the late 1970s.
However, this popularity resulted in something of a backlash in the 1970s and 1980s, leading some poets and entire poetry movements to go out of their way to avoid writing in the confessional mode.
While this move proved unpopular with some longtime fans, the backlash was minor in comparison to the failed move of production to Mexico in the 1980s.
A backlash ensued in the late 1980s as some black people felt that white people were cashing in on the popularity of their music.
" Like Sam, a ` new ' macho hero of the 1980s is an opposite of an ` old ' pre-1980s macho hero that " constituted an antifeminist backlash.
The movement arose as a response to the perceived failures of and backlash against initiatives and movements created by Second-wave feminism during the 1960s to 1980s, and the realization that women are of " many colors, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds ".
* 1991: American feminist Susan Faludi published Backlash, about the backlash to feminism in the 1980s.
The term was used in the 1980s to describe a backlash against second-wave feminism.
Susan Faludi, in the 2006 edition of her 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, argues that a backlash against second wave feminism in the 1980s has successfully re-defined feminism through its terms.
The WLM ran into problems in the 1980s, both with a political backlash more generally, and questions about which women it was speaking for.
By the early 1980s, the backlash against disco had driven dance music off mainstream radio stations in the US.
In the late 1980s, the appearance of gorillas in comic books sharply declined, partly due to the decreasing depictions of them in other media, as well as the end of the Silver Age of Comics, and the backlash against " silly " plot-devices in the comic book form.
For a follow-up, Evelyn Thomas re-recorded three tracks from an aborted project by Levine's group Moonstone, " Love in the First Degree ", " Summer on the Beach " and " Sleaze " ( originally entitled " Out of the Ball Game ") but with the disco backlash in the US, the tracks were left unreleased, and Levine and Thomas ' careers stalled as the 1980s began.
Versions of the SITES " Spectre " M4 submachine gun specifically made for the civilian market have been around since the middle 1980s and up to the late 1990s, their production suffering a major backlash when the US Assault Weapons Ban prohibited the import and sale of them on the American market, the biggest and most lucrative for this kind of item.

backlash and political
As in many former Soviet republics, after Kyrgyzstan regained independence in August 1991 many individuals, organizations, and political parties sought to reestablish ( and, to a certain extent, to create from scratch ) a Kyrgyz national cultural identity ; often one that included a backlash against Russians.
For example, the intense backlash against country band the Dixie Chicks, for remarks critical of President George W. Bush onstage in London in 2003, was described by newspaper columnist Don Williams as the price for freely speaking political views disapproved by supporters of the Iraq War.
Betty Friedan and other liberal feminists often see precisely the radicalism of radical feminism as potentially undermining the gains of the women's movement with polarizing rhetoric that invites backlash and hold that they overemphasize sexual politics at the expense of political reform.
Willis saw this as an example of a " conservative retrenchment " that occurred when the " expansive prosperity and utopian optimism of the ' 60s succumbed to an era of economic limits and political backlash.
In October 2009, the former president of Zanzibar, Amani Abeid Karume, met with CUF secretary Seif Sharif Hamad, who is currently the first vice president of Zanzibar, at the State House to discuss how to save Zanzibar from future political turmoil and to end the backlash between them.
Johnson's popularity plummeted as a massive white political backlash took shape, reinforcing the sense Johnson had lost control of the streets of major cities as well as his party.
For fear that separatism would lead to instability and a dictatorial backlash, a compromise was struck among the moderate political parties taking part in the drafting of the Spanish Constitution of 1978.
The Civil Rights Movement was gathering momentum, and in 1964 urban riots began within black neighborhoods in New York City and Los Angeles ; by 1968 hundreds of cities had major riots that caused a severe conservative political backlash.
On 21 June 2006, Gusmão called for Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri to resign or else he would, as allegations that Alkatiri had ordered a hit squad to threaten and kill his political opponents led to a large backlash.
The idealist Chancellor, Fan Zhongyan ( 989 – 1052 ), was the first to receive a heated political backlash when he attempted to make such reforms as improving the recruitment system of officials, increasing the salaries for minor officials, and establishing sponsorship programs to allow a wider range of people to be well educated and eligible for state service.
* In 1977, as a result of political backlash against his album Zombie Fela Kuti's mother was thrown from a window during a military raid on his compound, the Kalakuta Republic by 1, 000 Nigerian soldiers.
One factor favoring Montreal was that the IOC did not want the Summer games hosted in a superpower for fears of political backlash, which proved well-founded with the Olympic boycotts of 1980 and 1984.
In contrast with the more liberal and cosmopolitan Multnomah County to the north, and the more corporate Washington County to the west, some citizens of Clackamas county have espoused a blue-collar, yet conservative political outlook of the backlash mold described by Thomas Frank.
Promoting a decidedly conservative platform on many issues, resulting in a political backlash from some liberal groups, President Formigoni was re-elected in 2000 carrying over 62 % of the approximately 3. 5 million votes, and in 2005.
Back in 1936 the Billancourt factory had been at the heart of violent political and industrial unrest that had surfaced in France under Leon Blum ’ s Popular Front government: although the political jostling and violence that followed the liberation was ostensibly a backlash from the rivalries between capitalist collaboration and communist resistance, many of the scores being settled actually predated the German invasion.
One impetus for his political activism was his disagreement with the increasing regulations targeting large hog farming operations such as his, fueled by an environmentalist and populist backlash.
On November 3, 2010, facing an imminent caucus revolt over his management style and the political backlash against the Harmonized Sales Tax ( HST ) and the controversial end to the BC Rail corruption trial and with his approval rating as low as 9 % in polls, Gordon Campbell announced his resignation.
In the wake of the 2010 landmark case filed by Citizens United that allowed unlimited political spending by unions and corporations, Republican Senator John McCain, co-crafter of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, said " there's going to be, over time, a backlash ... when you see the amounts of union and corporate money that's going to go into political campaigns ".
* The impact of British counter terrorist strategies on political violence in Northern Ireland: Comparing deterrence and backlash models with Laura Dugan and Raven Korte ( 2009 )
On 21 June 2006, President Xanana Gusmão called for Alkatiri to resign or else he would, as allegations that Alkatiri had ordered a hit squad to threaten and kill his political opponents led to mass backlash.
But a political backlash against gambling-related corruption began.
Therefore, the first American academies for women were founded in the 1790s. However the opening of possibilities also engendered a backlash that actually set back the cause of women ’ s rights and led to a greater rigidity that marginalized women from political life.

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